ARCANE S2: Caitlyn
I had the pleasure and the honor of designing Caitlyn's Act 3 outfit(s) and weapon for Arcane Season 2!
Caitlyn's design is the combined work of countless artists across Riot and Fortiche. I am honored to have been able to pick up the torch for part of the journey.
To make it feel like this is an evolution of where Caitlyn has come from before, elements of her final outfit come from her Task Force uniform, which was designed by Victor Maury.
Task Force Caitlyn Design:
https://www.artstation.com/victormaury
Production Design and Additional Design for Caitlyn's Rail Gun
https://www.artstation.com/mr_arno
We wanted to make Caitlyn ready for battle. I wanted to adapt a design that I had done for the Warriors Season Start music video that was ultimately not used. This design was later adapted into a card art for Caitlyn in Legends of Runeterra.
We played with the idea of having Caitlyn in a sniper poncho and tried to keep some of the cape silhouette that Caitlyn adopted in Act 2. We ended up ditching the poncho and beret in the final version.
Final design of Caitlyn's Act 3 tactical outfit.
Front and back design.
I painted directly over the turnaround of Task Force Caitlyn. I wanted to retain some of her gear elements, such as her boots and gloves, to feel like she is wearing an upgraded version of that kit.
Throughout Act 3, we see Caitlyn in various levels of dress in this outfit. It may read as 2 or 3 outfits in the show, but it is all actually one outfit with removeable layers.
An early doodle of what I had in mind for Caitlyn's Hextech Railgun. We really didn't deviate much from here.
We wanted to give Caitlyn an upgrade to her weaponry as well. I took inspiration from a Railgun and tried to create the Hextech version of one.
I modeled and animated the Hextech Railgun in Blender to give the talented artists at Fortiche some ideas of how it could move so they could play around with the prop more than a standard rifle.
Front view transformations
Screenshot of the final product in Arcane S2